MSI works with the CCESR to manage the huge datasets that have been collected for decades at the site. These data and metadata are made available to researchers and the general public through the CCESR website.

On Wednesday, May 6, from 04:00 - 15:00, MSI staff will perform scheduled maintenance and upgrades to the network and various systems. This downtime will be a global, system-wide maintenance to upgrade the network components providing Panasas Connectivity.

During this maintenance period, we will be performing the following updates:• Panasas switch firmware and client updates.• Infrastructure hardware replacements.• Kernel updates for Lab and login nodes.• Citrix/Xen Active Directory switch-over to new server.• Migration of windows licensed software servers to a new system.

Professor Truhlar is one of the top computational chemists in the world. He has used MSI since the 1980s for his research in many aspects of physical chemistry. His current MSI research group includes more than 30 undergrad and grad students, post-docs, and research associates. He also collaborates with several other MSI Principal Investigators and has numerous publications.

MSI PI Liliya Williams, a professor at the Minnesota Institute for Astrophysics (College of Science and Engineering), was part of a team that has discovered dark matter interacting with a force other than gravity. The research, published in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, was led by researchers at Durham University in the UK. It is significant because it potentially disproves the theory that states that dark matter only interacts with gravity. This story has received considerable media attention, this articles quoting Professor Williams appearing on the websites below.